A FORLORN DERELICT.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12497, 7 May 1906, Page 8

A FORLORN DERELICT.

THE DAMAGE TO THE RONGA.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, May 5. An examination of the Ronga shows that the bowsprit Ls broken Fhort off. Tho foremast Ls broken off at the deck, land the niainma.-t is, broken off twenty ! feot trom the deck. The lower part is I now nil-topped from the keelson, and ii- lying on thu deck. The galley it* j gone, and the deck fittings, with th<? i exception ol the fn>h water tanks,, j have I>. -.'ii wa-shid away. The hoc-1 of the ship- boat is now on tbo I deck. Tlie boat is -aIK.-ut fifteen lec-t jin length, and must have b'.-en carried in the hold, :ls the k-*.<l was found there with the remain-- of the planking. ! All the hatches except one were in | place., and woie fastened down with '. c.mvafi nailed over thoiu. The rudrier is '■ in pkwe and intact, but the wheel and ' ste-ering-gi-ar arc smashed. j The only damage, on the outside of ■ the hull wiifi cau.sed by the ma-t and other wreckage battering sigainM it. There are a tew -beets ot copper off the topsides.' The decks an etn-un with cordage an. o'..'» r wreckage. There w.n> only one to, id. (oa! left in the hold. the* a-f-umptiun being tliat the i\>t tel cut ot ihe open hatch \i hen ire> ves-si'l c-ap-ized.